Because that's what Republican 'conservative' one percenter douchebags do. From
ThinkProgress:
As storms once again battered the state of Alabama over
Christmas, Republican Gov. Robert Bentley moved to divert funding from the 2010
BP oil spill recovery effort to finance the renovation of a second Governor’s
mansion on the Gulf Coast.
Yet that beachside mansion, which Alabama governors
beginning with famed segregationist George Wallace have enjoyed, was not
damaged by the BP oil spill. It was damaged more than two decades earlier by
Hurricane Danny, and has sat empty ever since.
While Alabama’s oyster industry and coastal communities continue
to suffer from the effects of the massive Deepwater Horizon oil well
blowout, the repairs to the governors’ mansion are estimated to cost
between $1.5 million and $1.8 million. Though Bentley says he will stay there
only “on occasion,” the administration said the property would be “primarily”
used to wine and dine corporate executives considering the state for
investment. (emphasis mine)
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